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Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Moving into mainstream, a good thing, will allow more and more scientists to take a look at this stuff, without being afraid of ruining their careers. Sad but true, that this was what happened for decades, the pressure was immense, virtually nobody was willing to discuss this seriously

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Years ago, I remember reading a suggestion that when the government needed to release information about alien life, they would start by "leaking" hints to gradually acclimatize people to the idea.

I now wish I hadn't seen that, as it makes it really hard to dismiss this topic when it starts to appear all over the sites I regularly browse.

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Odd that we don't see these kinds of alien secrets being kept under wraps by governments of Europe. I guess aliens are quite picky what part of the planet they want to be accidentally seen. /s

High ranking government official or experienced pilot does not give you any more klout than the average human which may not always be able to tell the difference between a bird or an alien space craft that they are seeing on a radar image.

IMO, this is being exploited to get more money flowing to the space force. That's it.

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Years ago, I remember reading a suggestion that when the government needed to release information about alien life, they would start by "leaking" hints to gradually acclimatize people to the idea. I now wish I hadn't seen that, as it makes it really hard to dismiss this topic when it starts to appear all over the sites I regularly browse.

Just remember that the technology to travel across interstellar space safely is much more demanding than the technology required not to crash into the planet or avoid being seen by cameras that are always inexplicably taking photos or videos that are 10+ years out of date compared to what the average consumer has available to them.

Also a lack of multiple angles on just about every single photo/video, too, despite everyone having cameras in their phones now for two decades.

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Years ago, I remember reading a suggestion that when the government needed to release information about alien life, they would start by "leaking" hints to gradually acclimatize people to the idea. I now wish I hadn't seen that, as it makes it really hard to dismiss this topic when it starts to appear all over the sites I regularly browse.

Just remember that the technology to travel across interstellar space safely is much more demanding than the technology required not to crash into the planet or avoid being seen by cameras that are always inexplicably taking photos or videos that are 10+ years out of date compared to what the average consumer has available to them. Also a lack of multiple angles on just about every single photo/video, too, despite ev…

Also, the fact that these observations are overwhelmingly made in the US, as if aliens only care about 1 continent.

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Odd that we don't see these kinds of alien secrets being kept under wraps by governments of Europe. I guess aliens are quite picky what part of the planet they want to be accidentally seen. /s High ranking government official or experienced pilot does not give you any more klout than the average human which may not always be able to tell the difference between a bird or an alien space craft that they are seeing on a…

You mean we don't see these kinds of alien secrets EXPOSED by governments of Europe!

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Years ago, I remember reading a suggestion that when the government needed to release information about alien life, they would start by "leaking" hints to gradually acclimatize people to the idea. I now wish I hadn't seen that, as it makes it really hard to dismiss this topic when it starts to appear all over the sites I regularly browse.

Just remember that the technology to travel across interstellar space safely is much more demanding than the technology required not to crash into the planet or avoid being seen by cameras that are always inexplicably taking photos or videos that are 10+ years out of date compared to what the average consumer has available to them. Also a lack of multiple angles on just about every single photo/video, too, despite ev…

There are a couple of explanations for crashed vehicles, I'll ignore any videos here:

- could be Von Neumann-style probes that don't care about collisions

- could be willingly "crashed" to speed development up

- could have been attacked by other species to prevent intervention

- could be inexperienced (e.g. young) pilots

I'd 100% assume that any kind of FTL vehicle also has some kind of cloaking functionality, so I wouldn't trust any photos or videos without a lot of further evidence. Just wanted to mention possible reasons - it's not 0% possible, more like 0.000[some more zeros]001%.

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Odd that we don't see these kinds of alien secrets being kept under wraps by governments of Europe. I guess aliens are quite picky what part of the planet they want to be accidentally seen. /s High ranking government official or experienced pilot does not give you any more klout than the average human which may not always be able to tell the difference between a bird or an alien space craft that they are seeing on a…

Europeans are used to not being listened to. They believe in angels and divinity making a spectacle phenomenon. How these correlate over time is curious. Lots of old tales from shepherds seeing objects hovering in the sky.

When I was in Italy (teenager) I saw three light points make a synchronous ascent from a farm field covered area five k way.

When I had a trippy dream I saw them in tanks. Rows and rows of tanks. They were showing me how America kept their broods in tanks. They live in their embryonic sac usually, so that part was fine.

Re: Senators move to require release of US Government UFO records

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Just remember that the technology to travel across interstellar space safely is much more demanding than the technology required not to crash into the planet or avoid being seen by cameras that are always inexplicably taking photos or videos that are 10+ years out of date compared to what the average consumer has available to them. Also a lack of multiple angles on just about every single photo/video, too, despite ev…

Also, the fact that these observations are overwhelmingly made in the US, as if aliens only care about 1 continent.

Well clearly we're just so great
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